Even a crumb of food or a stray hair can cause a key (including the Power key) to become unresponsive. If you have a new MacBook or MacBook Pro with butterfly switches (the new style keys with very little travel), it’s possible something got caught into the switch. Let’s start by going through the symptoms one by one: Common Symptoms MacBook Pro Power Button Stops Working Following these instructions could recover your Mac but could also destroy your data. Samsung makes a inexpensive 128GB flash drive that’ll work great for 128GB MacBook and MacBook Airs and Seagate makes a 1TB external drive that’ll work great for anything larger.įor everything that’s about to follow, you should have backups. And, on a final note, the best way to protect your data is to keep frequent backups. Let me know if you find this useful, or if anything is unclear or missing and I’ll update it. I’ll write more about some of the other battle-tested solutions I’ve discovered over the coming week as well. That means part of my responsibility is keeping all our office equipment up while distracting me as little as possible. Who am I to write this? I’m the Director of Engineering for a startup transitioning from a small to a medium-sized business, and we’ve grown to a fair number of employees while not forming any sort of IT department.

After the amount of responses my last blog post on the mysterious “ too many corpses” error on macOS Sierra and High Sierra, I realized there was a need to do an ultimate guide on recovering macOS, going step by step through the different ways to do so from easiest and least risky to the hardest and last resort options.

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